00:00The father wants to scoop his daughter up in a sea of roses, but no matter how hard he tries,
00:04he can't feel her body. A young woman's corpse is found by the Junggang River in Seoul.
00:08Police cordon off the scene. The condition of the body is horrifying. The head and limbs have
00:12been severed with a sharp blade. The killer sewed the severed parts back together. Only the right
00:16arm is missing. The crime scene search doesn't turn up much, just a few irregular footprints.
00:21Next to each footprint is a small round hole. It suggests someone using a cane or crutch was here.
00:25That person is likely the killer. Police call in the country's top forensic expert,
00:29Kang Myung-ho is a recognized authority in the field. His motto, the dead never lie. The truth
00:33is hidden in the marks left by the scalpel. Police investigation reveals the victim's name,
00:38Oona, age 29. She worked as a bar hostess. That detail leads police to an early theory.
00:43The case might stem from a relationship dispute, but Kang doesn't jump to conclusions. He picks up
00:47his scalpel. Once a person dies, they're no longer a person. They're evidence. He quickly determines
00:52the cause of death. Blunt force trauma to the head. Sand and grit found in her nose and mouth,
00:57point to a nearby concrete plant. Traces of seawater in the wounds, suggest the dismemberment
01:01happened by the ocean. Easy to rinse away the blood. Putting the clues together, police split
01:06into two teams. One digs into the victim's social circle, and finds a boyfriend with a serious
01:11gambling habit. The other team sweeps the nearby concrete plant, and finds the missing right arm
01:15buried in a pile of sand and gravel. Police immediately seal off the scene, and question
01:19every worker there, but come up empty. Their last hope rests on the victim's boyfriend.
01:23But he was at the racetrack when the murder happened. With an airtight alibi, the two hadn't
01:27seen each other in over a month. The trail goes cold, and the case stalls. Rookie officer
01:31Yering used to be the professor's student. She keeps going back over the crime scene photos,
01:35so she pays her old teacher a visit. She pulls out photos from where the severed arm was found.
01:40She can't figure out why the killer would bury the arm there. The killer commits the murder
01:44at the concrete plant, dismembers the body by the sea, then drives 15 kilometers to dump it
01:48by the river, but brings the right hand all the way back to the crime scene.
02:02Her teacher's words strike a chord with Yering. She looks up information on all three locations
02:06online, and discovers something unexpected. Connect the three points on a map, and they trace out
02:11the shape of Venus. And right now, the government is building a levee on the Junggang River, cutting
02:15this Venus right through the middle. She keeps digging, and finds a grassroots environmental
02:19group called I Love Venus, which has been protesting the government's river development project.
02:23Because once construction wraps up, the Venus on the map will be sliced into six pieces.
02:28The group's founder, Lee Sung-ho, even published a book. In it, he writes,
02:50Yering continues, the concrete plant has been supplying cement for the government's project. On the murder
02:55day, Lee Sung-ho led a group there to cause trouble, shutting the plant down for 20 minutes. 20 minutes
03:00is
03:00plenty of time to kill someone.
